The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1887-07-01
WASHINGTON WARBLINGs.

Mr.. Richards, nephew of Mr.. Ban
croft, the historian, has been selected
as microscopic under the oleomarga-
rine law.
The Interstate commerce com mis-
sion Will hear the complaint OF the
Grange county farmers and dairylnen
against the Erie road on July IL, the
first day after the vacation.
Six cars and twenty men have for
six weeks been engaged in cutting and
hauling branches from Washington
shade trees that are White with the
cocoons OF the tent caterpillar.
The president has all lis shoes made
in Albany, and Wears eights, extra
broad. Mrs. Cleveland's number threes
and the eights present quite contrast
when observed side by side.
The statue of the late Governor Bill
Alien of Ohio stands temporarily in
tile rotunda Of the Capitol. 1t is as big
as the Ethan Allen which stands in
statuary hall, and pictures the old hero
making a speech ina swallow tail coat.
Until the new reservoir is completed
Washington will have a scant supply
Of water. Citizens are prohibited from
using sprlnklers on their lawns, except
between S and 6:30 p. IN. The reser-
voir is ready for water, and the tunnel,
three miles long under the city, will be
done in july
Among the guests of the Arlington
is stout gentleman with fine bur-
gundy complexion and snowy mus
tache. He is always the centre of a
group of admirers. 10 his broad
Panama hat and silk jacket he looks
very comfortable and happy. 1t is
Proctor Knott, the prophet of Duluth,
the zenith city Of the great unsalted
seas.
George q. Gorham, who was chosen
by Secretary Stanton's only surviving
son to write the life of the great Sec
retary, has gone to Steubenville, Ohio,
where Stanton was brought up. Few
people know that the secretary was
a southerner by birth. He was born
in North Carolina, his parents having
emigrated there from Cape Cod.
Secretary Lamar's palatial bathroom
at the interior building, over which
there WAS something, OF furry two
years ago, has been put to use that will
ity. He keeps his stenographer in it,
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spacious quarters allowed Mr.. Lamar.
There is a ground glass PARTITION
around the tub and lavatory so that
the new arrangement does not inter-
fese with their functions as bathroom
| accessories.
The worst left man in the American
telephone fasco are two gentlemen
who resigned good places in the treas
| ury department to go to Venezuela and
put up the telephones. They arrived
there only to learn that the company
had gone to pieces. Ben. .Butterworth's
resignation, which he says he has not
rendered, simply awaits the refundlng
of all money received for stock. 1t
will lie accepted then. The other otf-
| GERS and directors do not intend to let
Mr.. l,utterWorth out until they can
put their OWE hats on.
o; the twenty busts of vice presl-
dents to be placed in the twenty inches
in the senate chamber only one is in
place that of Calhoun. It's in plas-
ter and rests on cheap wooden pedes-
tai. J.Q. A. Ward was the sculptor
and has made good portrait. The
twenty inches will hardly accommo-
date all the busts required. There
have been thirty-fiye vice presidents
including those who were so by virtue
of election as presidents pro tenn. OF
the senate. There have been twenty
one elected by the people. Will Mr
Ward leave out Aaron Burr?